A well chewed and dying knapweed plant with many flea beetles on it.
This plant was just black with beetles however, I bumped into a grass stem that hit the plant and scared them. As you can see by the beetles in the air, most of them hopped off just as I took the photo..... :^)
The dead and dying plants are black with flea beetles!
Photos by Todd Breitenfeldt, July, 2005 near Grassrange, MT.
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